One story about this battle says that men deserted after being ordered not to hold a funeral service for the first casualty, Asa Prescott. The poem "Seth Pomeroy's Ride" honors the arrival at this battle of one of its combatants. Dr. Joseph Warren was slain in this battle. Shortly after this battle, Thomas Gage was removed from command and replaced by William Howe, who was field commander at this 
One story about this battle says that men deserted after being ordered not to hold a funeral service for the first casualty, Asa Prescott. The poem "Seth Pomeroy's Ride" honors the arrival at this battle of one of its combatants. Dr. Joseph Warren was slain in this battle. Shortly after this battle, Thomas Gage was removed from command and replaced by William Howe, who was field commander at this battle. While technically Israel Putnam and William Prescott's force lost, they inflicted about a thousand British casualties. Before this battle, Prescott perhaps apocryphally said "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." For 10 points, name this early Revolutionary War battle, fought outside Boston at the actual location of Breed's Hill.
One story about this battle says that men deserted after being ordered not to hold a funeral service for the first casualty, Asa Prescott.
Battle of {Bunker Hill}